Publishing

Since its opening in 2000, the Collection Lambert pays particular attention to the publication of exhibition catalogs. Enriched with texts by curators, art historians, philosophers, writers or interviews with artists, the works retrace the route of the exhibitions and constitute the memory of the museum. With more than thirty published titles, it is an important documentation resource on exhibitions, artists and the institution that is available.

The editorial line of the Collection Lambert was born from a close collaboration with the graphic artists Antoine + Manuel and Actes Sud, who became the historical co-publisher of the museum, but also with the Éditions de l’Amateur and Gallimard.

In 2019, the museum begins a new series of books, The Cahiers of the Collection Lambert, thought as true testimonies of the importance and the quality of the sets of works preserved in Avignon. Each issue, devoted to an artist, offers the opportunity for visitors and readers to further explore the collection through reproductions of works, some of which have never been published, and unpublished interviews with Yvon Lambert.

2023

A Story of ArtCatalogue Pascale Marthine Tayou “Petits Riens”

2022

Cy Twombly 
Cahier de la 
Collection Lambert
Catalogue Ann Veronica Janssens
“Entre le crépuscule et le ciel”
Catalogue Jean Charles Blais
“Idylles”
Catalogue ¡Viva Villa!
“Ce à quoi nous tenons”

2021

Catalogue “Yan 
Pei-Ming, Tigres 
et vautours”
Niele Toroni
Cahier de la 
Collection Lambert
Catalogue
“How to 
Disappear”
Catalogue 
“Abdelkader Benchamma, 
Rayon Fossile”

2020

Nan Goldin
Cahier de la Collection Lambert
Robert Ryman
Cahier de la Collection Lambert

2019

Collecting in the 21st centuryLa fin des forêts
Basquiat Remix
Matisse, Picasso, Twombly
Vik Muniz
Imaginária
Francesco Vezzoli
Le Lacrime dei poeti
Sol LeWitt
The Cahier of the Collection Lambert

2018

Line Form Colour
Ellsworth Kelly
Djamel Tatah

2016

Les Combas
de Lambert
Andres Serrano
Torture

2015

Adel Abdessemed
Jalousies
Andres Serrano
Ainsi soit-il
Patrice Chéreau
An imaginary museum

2014

The Disappearance of the fireflies

2013

Les Papesses

2012

Oriental Mirages, Pomegranates & Prickly PearsThe masterpieces of the Yvon Lambert donation

2011

Vik Muniz
An imaginary museum
Le Temps retrouvé
Cy Twombly

2010

Miquel Barceló
Terramare

2009

Roni HornI Don’t Kiss

2008

La Collection Lambert
à la Villa Médicis
Le Grand tour
Douglas Gordon
Where Are The Keys?
Portrait de Miquel Barceló
en artiste pariétal
Let Us Render to Cézanne…

2007

Cy Twombly
Blooming, A Scattering
of Blossoms and Other Things
Andres Serrano
Portraits de la Comédie-Française

2006

Figures de l’acteur
The Actor’s Paradox

2005

Theorema
Une collection privée en Italie,
la collection d’Enea Righi

2003

Coollustre
Trois expositions d’Éric Troncy

2001

Collections d’artistesJan Fabre
Umbraculum. Un lieu ombragé
pour réfléchir et travailler

2000

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